Trump & Clinton Were Very Convincing…on How Lousy the Other One Is

Let’s pretend for a moment that the biggest headlines out of Sunday night’s presidential debate had nothing to do with sexual assault allegations, or non-handshakes, or threats to jail political opponents—but instead were about policy. In that bizarre alternative universe, what could we actually learn?

That the two exhausted political parties have nothing much left to offer except critiques about how lousy the other one is.